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... Thousand centuries remain , guarded in the urn , And in the remembrance of our nation . " ร to the new world . A German named Waldsee Müller. TOMB OF COLUMBUS AT HAVANA . DRAKE BEHOLDS THE PACIFIC . 24 [ 1493 . UNITED STATES HISTORY .
... Thousand centuries remain , guarded in the urn , And in the remembrance of our nation . " ร to the new world . A German named Waldsee Müller. TOMB OF COLUMBUS AT HAVANA . DRAKE BEHOLDS THE PACIFIC . 24 [ 1493 . UNITED STATES HISTORY .
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... thousand un- der Governor Winthrop founded Boston ( 1630 ) . Religious Disturbances . - The people of Massachusetts Bay were Puritans , but not Separatists , in England . Having come to America to establish a Puritan church , they were ...
... thousand un- der Governor Winthrop founded Boston ( 1630 ) . Religious Disturbances . - The people of Massachusetts Bay were Puritans , but not Separatists , in England . Having come to America to establish a Puritan church , they were ...
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... God's people , he rushed from his hiding - place , led them on to victory , and then returned to his retreat , never more to reappear . thousand warriors perished . Philip escaped . In the spring. 58 [ 1675 , UNITED STATES HISTORY .
... God's people , he rushed from his hiding - place , led them on to victory , and then returned to his retreat , never more to reappear . thousand warriors perished . Philip escaped . In the spring. 58 [ 1675 , UNITED STATES HISTORY .
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For Schools Joel Dorman Steele. thousand warriors perished . Philip escaped . In the spring the war broke out anew along a frontier of three hundred miles , and to within twenty miles of Boston . Nowhere fight- ing in the open field ...
For Schools Joel Dorman Steele. thousand warriors perished . Philip escaped . In the spring the war broke out anew along a frontier of three hundred miles , and to within twenty miles of Boston . Nowhere fight- ing in the open field ...
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... thousand in a single year . The next year he came himself . On his arrival he was received by the settlers with the greatest cordiality and respect . Philadelphia Founded . - The year following ( 1683 ) Penn purchased land of the Swedes ...
... thousand in a single year . The next year he came himself . On his arrival he was received by the settlers with the greatest cordiality and respect . Philadelphia Founded . - The year following ( 1683 ) Penn purchased land of the Swedes ...
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Page xxxii - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Page xxxiii - Daniel [of St. Thomas] Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA. John Blair, James Madison, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA. William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA. John Rutledge, Charles C. Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. GEORGIA. William Few, Abraham Baldwin. Attest : WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary...
Page xxvi - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers ; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.
Page xxvii - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The vice-president of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
Page xxiv - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 191 - I could not do it. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse in my own room, over and over again, yet, when the day came, when the school collected to hear declamations, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned to my seat, I could not raise myself from it.
Page xxiv - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 100 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Page xxiii - Agreeably to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their further consideration the Declaration ; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr.
Page 113 - I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country.